unknown locale: UTF-8 in preprocessing.py file

Hi,

I'm trying to execute the jupiter notebook Introduction. However I've been having an issue with the line "from dariah_topics import preprocessing as pre". I get always the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Users/MissOgra/Topics/dariah_topics/preprocessing.py", line 28, in
import regex
File "/Users/MissOgra/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/regex.py", line 683, in
_pattern_type = type(_compile("", 0, {}))
File "/Users/MissOgra/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/regex.py", line 436, in _compile
pattern_locale = _getlocale()[1]
File "/Users/MissOgra/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 577, in getlocale
return _parse_localename(localename)
File "/Users/MissOgra/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 486, in _parse_localename
raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

Any ideas about how can I resolve this problem?

Thank you.

Carolina

[SinaB0ck]

Hi Carolina,

if you using Anaconda on Mac OS X one this solution might help -> http://patrick.arminio.info/fix-valueerror-unknown-locale-utf8/